The Gospel Box

The Gospel Box

The Gospel Box is part of our Sunday morning service at 9.30am. Someone takes the box home with them and puts something in it to bring back the following week. The leader of the service invites the children to the front to see what has been brought in (a surprise to the leader!). The leader then explains what the Good News of Jesus has to say about that object (because the Gospel is applicable to every area of our lives!)

This week has been half term and we’ve been doing lots of exciting stuff.

On Monday we visited Jodrell Bank radio telescope,

We had a talk on exoplanets & becoming an astronaut (with a photo next to a cardboard Tim Peake), we also saw the displays about the big bang, black holes, listen to some stars and played with the
Whispering Dishes.

On Tuesday I took Daniel to Rhyme Time at the library before having lunch with my Great Granny Elizabeth and Great Aunt Jacky.

On Wednesday I went to a paper plate puppet mking session at the Library were I made 3 puppets.

But the most exciting bit was …

Last Saturday, after a mini Rugby festival my team was asked to be part of a guard of honour to welcome the Northampton Saints and London Irish Players onto the pitch before their match.

I have a lovely bedroom its been decorated with all my favourite things, unicorns and princesses.

But now, I have to sleep on my own in my own bed not mummy’s.

It was really tricky because I was a little bit worried about the dark, i needed to go to the toilet, I felt poorly, my legs ached, my brain hurt & I needed to go to the hospital because I had bleeding eyes! These are just a few problems I faced sleeping in my own bed.

My first night, I only woke up 69 times, pretty good i thought.

Mummy said “ if I stay all night in my own bed she would ask matt if we are able to have the church mouse then we can have lots of fun”. So i did.

We done lots of things. I took church mouse to see a pantomine (oh, yes I did) but i didn’t like cinderella’s 2 ugly sister’s.

I went to work with mummy at recovery house. I showed ivan, elliott, terry, james, dean and david how to do fast exercises & then we went shopping. David said he needed a hair brush but he doesn’t have any hair!! He really made me laugh he was so funny!

Me & church mouse played a game, it was called mouse trap! Later he slept on my bed and we fell asleep together for most of the night anyway.

Shiver me timbers! The following day I dressed up as a pirate and instead of having a parrot on my shoulder I had a mouse. We went to school and the pirates gave us pieces of treasure.

When I woke up on friday morning, my mummy was dancing and singing to a song called celerbration.

I asked her to stop as her singing and dancing was scaring me a little.

I asked mummy why she was so happy “for the 1st time in 4 years she slept the whole night through & she was having such a lovely dream about???………well, I never did find out what mummy was dreaming about. Oh…. I know, sweets!!

Sandra who led the service said: Your mum knows you and loves you so much and knows exactly what you like and what is best for you and she has worked so hard on designing your bedroom to be just perfect for you. Our God loves us so much and knows us so well, that he has designed our lives to be perfect for us too. But just as it’s up to you to choose to sleep in your own bedroom from now on, it’s up to us to choose the way that God has for us too.

My good news is the same as for most of us, this week we have celebrated the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ. The best good news. Most families have traditions for Christmas day, mine consisted of breakfast with stockings, ringing at 10, (fortunately not at 6.30 as it was when I was a teenager), church,lunch, the Queen’s speech,(a lesson in evangelism), more family come, presents, tea and games. We played cards and a new eggheads game where the oldies beat the youngsters.

My other piece of good news was that I was lucky enough to have Santa Clause (or Papa Noel as we call him) came for the day. He was quite tired but ate well and was a member of the winning eggheads team.